Hail in Tulsa on Wednesday, May 4, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Tulsa on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, between 6:04 pm and 10:09 pm CDT, in 4 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 1.25 inches at Sand Springs (Tulsa County) at 6:07 pm. NOAA radar flagged 3,464 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 564 rated a 100% chance of hail and 410 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Creek, Okmulgee, Osage and Tulsa counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Sand Springs 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Bristow 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mannford 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Wilson 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:04 pm | 1.00 | 6 E Mannford | Tulsa | CORRECTS PREVIOUS HAIL REPORT FROM 6 E MANNFORD. REPORT OF 1 INCH HAIL AT KEYSTONE DAM. (TSA) |
| 6:07 pm | 1.25 | Sand Springs | Tulsa | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF HALF DOLLAR HAIL IN SAND SPRINGS. (TSA) |
| 6:08 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Sand Springs | Osage | SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT OF 1 INCH HAIL AT THE SAND SPRINGS POGUE AIRPORT. (TSA) |
| 7:18 pm | 1.00 | 7 N Bristow | Creek | (TSA) |
| 10:09 pm | 1.00 | Wilson | Okmulgee | EMERGENCY MANAGER ALSO REPORTED THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 60 MPH OBSERVED. (TSA) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
3,464 signatures from 9 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 564 were rated 100% and 33 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTUL | 1,372 | 195 | 156 | 16 | 2.50 in | 6:09 am | 11:58 pm |
| KINX | 558 | 103 | 72 | 9 | 2.25 in | 6:56 am | 11:54 pm |
| KVNX | 415 | 69 | 47 | 3 | 2.00 in | 6:59 am | 11:56 pm |
| KTLX | 380 | 58 | 39 | 1 | 2.00 in | 6:58 am | 8:49 pm |
| KICT | 369 | 57 | 39 | 0 | 1.75 in | 6:48 am | 11:58 pm |
| KSRX | 323 | 73 | 50 | 4 | 2.00 in | 7:01 am | 11:56 pm |
| KSGF | 37 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 in | 8:38 am | 10:36 pm |
| KTWX | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 8:06 am | 11:33 pm |
| KICH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 11:15 pm | 11:15 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Tulsa when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 7 counties (Tulsa, Wagoner, Rogers, Creek, Osage, Okmulgee and Pawnee counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.